LEFT TO DIE

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Horrifying moment suspected child snatcher is battered to death by lynch mob

Preyor was convicted in the February 2004 slaying of 24-year-old Jami Tackett, who court records identified as Preyor's drug supplier.

She was stabbed and her throat was cut.

Testimony showed that in the early hours of February 26, 2004, Preyor, dressed in black and wearing a hood and gloves, kicked in the door of a San Antonio apartment where Tackett lived and kept drugs in a safe.

Tackett recognised Preyor when he barged into a bedroom, calling him by his nickname "Box".

He then attacked her boyfriend, who escaped to a neighbour's apartment and called for help.

Evidence showed Preyor, a drug seller and user since adolescence, then stabbed Tackett and cut her throat.

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The "death chamber" at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas

He fled the apartment but returned because he lost his car keys in the struggle.

By the time he tried to flee a second time, police had arrived and used pepper spray to subdue him.

He was covered with the blood of his victims.

At least six other Texas prisoners are scheduled to be executed in the next several months.

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